Dr. Amanda Moffett 🌌🔭

A Southern (US) astronomer and new Assistant Professor at University of North Georgia. The opinions are my own fault.

[Ryan Van Velzer @RyanVanVelzer]

I'm gonna climb up on the soap box for a second to talk about the value of local journalism. It's been a rough year in a decade of decline for the industry. People are tuning out for myriad reasons. But local news like @WFPLNews and has so much to offer. I'll show you🧵

[Rohan Naidu @Rohan_Naidu]

So many of you are getting a taste of being an astronomer today! We travel to the ends of the Earth for a glimpse of something sublime -- the tops of dormant volcanos, the dry hearts of deserts, even Antarctica -- only to be thwarted by goddamn clouds!

[sophie @sophiemg2018]

maybe I’m just very unstable rn but the cerveza cristal ads are literally the best thing that that I’ve experienced this year.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Many of the people who idolize brilliant scientists like Feynman are quick to claim only an elite few are mathematically gifted enough to study physics, but Feynman himself didn’t believe that:

[Bob Hutton @HerecomesDrBob]

Cheers to Harvard for getting in on the APPALACHIAN STUDIES game. Welcome aboard.
I'm glad students at our top university will be learning about the cultural significance of "Dollyworld."

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Publicly shaming an Ivy league school for claiming credit for the success of a women scientist whose work it disrespected and rejected is one of the best uses of community notes I’ve ever seen.

[Dr. Amanda Moffett 🌌🔭 @asouthernastro]

@mark_a_norris Also for far, far worse examples of excessive American houses, allow me to introduce you to McMansion Hell: https://t.co/yipFCjWCYc .

[Dr. Amanda Moffett 🌌🔭 @asouthernastro]

@mark_a_norris Really though only quite middle-class Americans who are willing to go in debt up to their eyeballs can afford these monstrosities. Signed someone who lives in a quite modest sized condo with no garage :P

[Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood]

Note that not a single “administrator” has taken a pay cut. #Universities have to teach. It’s what they are for. They are not “for” administering without any #teachers. Many have become topheavy with administrators, who just keep administering themselves more money and cutting the teaching of students.

[Dr. Amanda Moffett 🌌🔭 @asouthernastro]

@fdmtweets @GMUPHYSANDASTRO @nertushka Happy Birthday! 🎂

[Matt Novak @paleofuture]

Say what you will about Elon Musk’s Twitter feed, but it’s done more in a few short years to dispel the myth of American meritocracy than just about anything in the past century.

[Cari Cesarotti @caridoesphysics]

me with a phd and years of research experience: huh not sure better quadruple check again

some guy with an internet connection and my email: i have never studied math or physics in my life but i am certain everyone else has been wrong forever about space and time

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert absolutely hate this poster. So for god’s sake — don’t even think about liking it or retweeting it.

[Dr. Saavik Ford @saavikford]

Adding my possibly unnecessary thoughts:

As faculty at an underfunded PUI, who often had zero external funding early in my faculty career—you’ll notice I published in MNRAS a lot. Publishing to arXiv got my science out to the community, but wouldn’t have gotten me tenure. 1/

[Dr. Amanda Moffett 🌌🔭 @asouthernastro]

Also, pretty much the premise of Hunger Games.

[Dr. Amanda Moffett 🌌🔭 @asouthernastro]

@Astronomisty @GSTANews Thanks again, Misty! We had so many enthusiastic positive comments on your talk 😀